Today I Received.....

[AOB]

18 minutes ago, James32 said:

Big thanks to @Auronum for an excellent deal.

You have replenished the 100oz bar, suppose this will be front doorstep for the house soon..👌🏽 nice haul buddy!!

[Silverlocks]

A little more frigging with reflectors - another cardboard and foil special with the lights reflected off it to disperse.  I've taped a bit of tracing paper to the reflector to flatten the light even more.  The spot provides a bit of specular reflection to show up the mint finish.  The £20 coin was just taken with the reflector and no spot, and the camera at a slightly greater angle to get the oblique shot.  That shot was stacked, but the others are all axial or just off axial without being enough to need stacking.

[AOB]

1 minute ago, Silverlocks said:

A little more frigging with reflectors - another cardboard and foil special with the lights reflected off it to disperse.  I've taped a bit of tracing paper to the reflector to flatten the light even more.  The spot provides a bit of specular reflection to show up the mint finish.  The £20 coin was just taken with the reflector and no spot, and the camera at a slightly greater angle to get the oblique shot.  That shot was stacked, but the others are all axial or just off axial without being enough to need stacking.

Jeez that’s some setup you have there sir, no wonder all you guys take very fancy pictures of your coins 👏🏽

[Silverlocks]

11 minutes ago, AOB said:

Jeez that’s some setup you have there sir, no wonder all you guys take very fancy pictures of your coins 👏🏽

Yes, it's terribly sophisticated.  The reflector is foil glued onto cardboard.  Not because I'm too cheap to go out and buy a reflector, but because the smallest ones you can get are about two or three feet across and there isn't enough room for that on my desk.  My trusty copy of Spink 22 is doing sterling service as a stage to put the coins on to.  I think I need to get another tripod for the spot, as I had to cannibalise the stand I use for teleconferencing on my phone.

It's also a bit fiddly to get into in this incarnation.  The coin tongs in the background are needed to reach into the middle of this Heath-Robinson contraption and actually get at the coin.

Edited October 28, 2023 by Silverlocks

[HonestMoneyGoldSilver]

12 minutes ago, Silverlocks said:

A little more frigging with reflectors - another cardboard and foil special with the lights reflected off it to disperse.  I've taped a bit of tracing paper to the reflector to flatten the light even more.  The spot provides a bit of specular reflection to show up the mint finish.  The £20 coin was just taken with the reflector and no spot, and the camera at a slightly greater angle to get the oblique shot.  That shot was stacked, but the others are all axial or just off axial without being enough to need stacking.

Do you take pics of anything else or just coins?

[AOB]

3 minutes ago, Silverlocks said:

Yes, it's terribly sophisticated.  The reflector is foil glued onto cardboard.  Not because I'm too cheap to go out and buy a reflector, but because the smallest ones you can get are about two or three feet across and there isn't enough room for that on my desk.  My trusty copy of Spink 22 is doing sterling service as a stage to put the coins on to.  I think I need to get another tripod for the spot, as I had to cannibalise the stand I use for teleconferencing on my phone.

Serious amount of equipment and the outcome from the photos are top notch!!

Homemade equipment is the best, plus it’s free 👏🏽😂 

[AOB]

Just now, HonestMoneyGoldSilver said:

Do you take pics of anything else or just coins?

Takes pics of @James32 feet, and sells them online - then buy coins because fiat is boring 😁

[Silverlocks]

Just now, HonestMoneyGoldSilver said:

Do you take pics of anything else or just coins?

Not much else really.  Occasionally I take pics of this and that with my phone, but at the moment the only lens I've got for the Sony is the macro lens, so it's not a great deal of use for anything else.  At some point I'll get a general purpose lens for it.

Just now, AOB said:

Takes pics of @James32 feet, and sells them online - then buy coins because fiat is boring 😁

I used to have a Fiat but the mirrors kept falling off it.

[James32]

1 minute ago, Silverlocks said:

Occasionally I take pics of this and that with my phone

This is so illegal. 

[AOB]

3 minutes ago, Silverlocks said:

I used to have a Fiat but the mirrors kept falling off it

Haha bloody disaster them yokes 

Edited October 28, 2023 by AOB

[Brit2023]

53 minutes ago, Silverlocks said:

A little more frigging with reflectors - another cardboard and foil special with the lights reflected off it to disperse.  I've taped a bit of tracing paper to the reflector to flatten the light even more.  The spot provides a bit of specular reflection to show up the mint finish.  The £20 coin was just taken with the reflector and no spot, and the camera at a slightly greater angle to get the oblique shot.  That shot was stacked, but the others are all axial or just off axial without being enough to need stacking.

Beats my old iPhone, I like to think my photos are in the impressionist tradition.

[Silverlocks]

KOMSCO Tiger 2020-2023 From @Panda6Pack - bonus 2022 to go with the set.  Same lighting as the previous coins 2020
2021
Bonus 2022
2023

[LiquidMetalsUK]

Woo Saturday delivery day 

[lst65]

The Tudor Series Proofs & Reverse Frosted Proofs are coming along…

[Petra]

50 minutes ago, lst65 said:

The Tudor Series Proofs & Reverse Frosted Proofs are coming along…

Great coins😮👍

[lst65]

2 minutes ago, Petra said:

Great coins😮👍

Thanks @Petra

[Silverlocks]

And now I've caught up The last few odds and sods from @Panda6Pack and various other sources. Intaglio Mint Carpe Diem
NZ Mint Millennium Falcon
2023 1/10oz Royal Arms

[MaxeBaumann]

Hello dear silver friends, this series is now finished with the 7th issue. Seven wonders of the ancient world, I think they are very beautiful specimens. Sorry for the many pictures, I always photographed the front and the back. Maxe wishes you a nice Sunday.

[Silverlocks]

4 minutes ago, MaxeBaumann said:

Hello dear silver friends, this series is now finished with the 7th issue. Seven wonders of the ancient world, I think they are very beautiful specimens. Sorry for the many pictures, I always photographed the front and the back. Maxe wishes you a nice Sunday.

These are nice.  I saw the mausoleum coin at Silvertrader and it looked like it might be quite photogenic.  I wondered if I should get it at some point, but you've answered the question.  The strike on these is rather nice as well - they definitely qualify as 'proof like'.

The more pictures the merrier, Maxe - you have fabulous taste in silver and your photos match your taste.

Edited October 29, 2023 by Silverlocks

[Petra]

14 minutes ago, MaxeBaumann said:

Hello dear silver friends, this series is now finished with the 7th issue. Seven wonders of the ancient world, I think they are very beautiful specimens. Sorry for the many pictures, I always photographed the front and the back. Maxe wishes you a nice Sunday.

Great looking coins and great pictures 🤔🫢😮😮

[stefffana]

On 11/11/2022 at 17:28, dikefalos said:

Take my mother in law. In a tube. Free shipping. No return. 

Your offer is still standing?

I am genuinely interested.

Any pictures, specifications?

Edited October 29, 2023 by stefffana

[Darr3nG]

4 minutes ago, stefffana said:

Any pictures, specifications?

Of the tube?

[JTerry3]

> Roman Emperor Elagabalus, Denarius, 218-19 AD

 

> Penny of Burgred (Anglo-Saxon King of Mercia), Lunette Type, 866-74 AD

 

> Palestine (British Mandate), 50 Mils, 1935

 

Edited October 29, 2023 by JTerry3

[stefffana]

19 minutes ago, JTerry3 said:

> Roman Emperor Elagabalus, Denarius, 218-19 AD

 

> Penny of Burgred (Anglo-Saxon King of Mercia), Lunette Type, 866-74 AD

 

> Palestine (British Mandate), 50 Mils, 1935

 

Why you are laughing, @daca? Wrong years on those coins? Or something else?😊

[daca]

29 minutes ago, stefffana said:

Why you are laughing, @daca? Wrong years on those coins? Or something else?😊

       fat fingers syndrome

Edited October 29, 2023 by daca